Helene Risor

Principal Researcher

Lines of action: Subjectivities and Conflicts

Ph.D in Social Anthropology. University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on politic and urban anthropology, in particular issues of civil (in)security, citizenship, violence, and post-conflict. She has studied generational politics and social movements, migration, practices and transnational spaces, particularly in the Andean area. She is an Assistant Professor on the Anthropology Program at the Institute of Sociology, Universidad Católica de Chile.

Publications

”Captured with their hands in the Dough”: Insecurity, Safety Seeking and Securitization in El Alto, Bolivia"

Eds. Martin Holbraad & Morten Axel Pedersen Title: Times of Security. Ethnographies of Fear, Protests and the Future Taylor and Francis Group 2013

2015

The Vecino as Citizen: Neighbourhood Organizations in el Alto and the Transformation pf Bolivian Citizenship

Eds. Dennis Rodgers, Jo Beall & Ravi Kanbur Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century. Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

2015